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Higher education in Ontario: The need for research universities
Author(s) -
McMillan Charles,
Baxter Eric
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
canadian public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.361
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1754-7121
pISSN - 0008-4840
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-7121.2011.00183.x
Subject(s) - political science , humanities , sociology , library science , art , computer science
This article addresses policy issues outlined in Academic Transformation , a new study of Ontario universities. The theme of this book is the need to develop teaching universities to cope with the steadily rising number of undergraduate students, the need for more full‐time teachers and the financial burdens of university funding. This prescription is seen as a flawed model for the needs of Ontario and for the students who attend teaching universities. What Ontario requires is a bold plan to remove the barriers to incremental funding that is based on body counts and a proactive research strategy that serves the knowledge needs of the future. The article lays out a strategy and offers prescriptions that differ substantially from those found in the book Academic Transformation .